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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
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As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
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